Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1932, Page 17

Washi ngton News WARMER WEATHER AIDS IN REMOVAL OF LAST OF SNOW Early-Morning Freeze Results in Traffic Tie-up and Minor Accidents. BRIDGE SPAN FROZEN OPEN OVER POTOMAC Relief From Cold Wave Forecast for Next Few Days—Rain Due Tonight. A current of warm air moved into Washington from the South today to aid the snow ~emoval force in its task of clearing the streets of the remnants of last Saturday’s 11-inch snowfall. Despite the Weather Bureau's predic- tion that Winter's arrival would be marked by higher temperatures for the mext 24 hours, the Strect Cleaning De- partment kept a force of 1,200 men at work, removing snow from the down- town streets and opening snow-clogged gutters. Five hundred of these men were recruited from the ranks of the unemployed, and the others are regular employes of the city refuse, sewer and water departments. Sub-freezing temperatures during the night coated the streets and highways with a thin sheet of ice and made trav- eling dangerous. Only a comparatively few minor accidents were reported, how- ever, due to the treacherous conditions. Street Cars Tied Up. | There were several serious delays in street car and automobile traffic be- cause of the freezing temperatures after yesterday’s mild thaw. Ice forming on an open draw span on Highway Bridge tied up traffic for more than 15 minutes this morning, while the frozen mech- anism was thawed out and street cars were stalled for about 40 minutes in the vicinity of the Congressional Li- brary as a result of a frozen switch. The Weather Bureau indicated that ashington can expect, for the nex few days at least, some relief from the cold weather that has gripped the East- ern seaboard for the last week. Tropic- warmed breezes are destined to sweep the Atlantic Coast States for 24 hours or more, but they will bring a light Tain tonight and probably tomorrow mghngl & emperature tonight, according to the Weather Bureau, will not fall below 28 degrees. The minimum for the last 24 hours was 18 degrees, re- corded at 6 am. today on the official thermometer. 500 to Keep Jobs. Although the weather has been mod- eating slowly ever since the snow si0-m, Government meteorologists point ci its effect has not been more to the sno ce: ves to kc:‘)J the atmosphere | oncr Gotwals has how-removal force v, although its size | may be reduced from day to day asi weather conditions warrant. In any event, the 500 men without regular jobs, will be kept on the shovel brigade as long as the snow remains. Commis- sioner Gotwals feels that these men are desperately in deed of work, and by keeping them employed shoveling snow, the public will get the greatest benefit from the emergency relief fund which is being used to pay their wages. The street car tie-up in the vicinity of the Congressional Library kept the cars stalled from 7:11 to 7:53 o'clock. Cars on both lines—the Capital Trac- tion and Washington Rallway & Elec- tric—were affected. The frozen switch | was located at First and East Capitol streets. It was thawed out and service restored before the rush hour. Frost and ice in the steel connecting tongues of the Highway Bridge draw span jammed traffic on both sides of the bridge shortly after 8 o'clock. The span had been opened for a tug going down the river. Workmen thawed the frozen tongues with burning kerosene. o DECISION DELAYED ON U. S. PAY CUTS Senate Ecomomy Committee Ex- pected to Wait Until After Christmas. Following another _executive session today of the Senate Economy Commit- tee, it appeared virtually certain that a decision on what will be done regarding salaries of Government employes for the next fiscal year will not be brought out of the committee until after the Christ- mas_holidays. Chairman Bingham of the economy oup said further meetings probably g\?ou'l% be held during the holiday period. however. It also seems likely the Treasury-Post Office supply bill, to which the general policy on salaries and other econemy proposals will be attached. will remain in committee until after the Christmas recess. The Oddie subcommittee handling the Treasury-Post Office bill, has called on the Post Office Department for in- formation that it will take several days to gather. The Treasury-Post Office money items and the salary recommen- datfons of the Economy Committee for the entire Government service, there- fore, are not expected to be laid before the entire Senate Appropriations Com- mittee until after the holidays. The House has started out on the Treasury-Post Office bill with a policy of continuing the 8!4 per cent furlough for Government employes for another year. While the Scnate group is consid- ering some alternative proposal might mean a slight additional cut, coupled with restoration of promotions within grades, there is no final deci- sion yet. YEAR’S SHORTEST DAY BRINGS WINTER TO CITY And Spring Will Come on March 21, Exactly Three Months Away. The shortest day of the year and the first day of Winter arrived here all at once this morning. Solar progncsticators allowed Wash- ington only 9 hours and 56 minutes of sunlight today, from 7:23 am. until 4:49 pm. Clouds which hung overhead from dawn until dusk, however, over- ruled the prophets and allowed the city no sunshine at all. Despite liberal evidence to the con- trary, Winter does not begin officially until tonight at 8:15 o'clock. “If Winter comes——" Yes, Spring will begin March 21, exactly three months from today. cover | The WASHINGTON, D. C., New Plane Model Examined ASSISTANT SECRETARY YOUNG of the Commerce Department. | Young. As: | long seri transcontinental line, w! to approximately 24 hou of the new f: istant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics. t planes now is being completed for use on the e they are expected to reduce ocean-to-ocean service LOOKS OVER MINIATURE PLANE. ECRETS of the world's fastest multi-motored transport plane are revealed for the first time in this scale model, received by the aeronautics branch It is being examined by Clarence M. The first of a —Star Staff Photo. SNOW SHOVELING CUTS AD PLEA Community Chest Finds Cap- ital’s Needy Prefer Work to Receiving Charity. nstr: !in nec2 of | the emplo; ber of men incident to cle: g that Washingtonians prefer work to charity. nt provided a large num- ing away DENAND PAVING DECADE OVERDLE Chillum Heights, $52,995 Out, to Have Hearing Be- fore Congress. Asserting abutting prcperty owners were asse.sed more then a decade ago for stre:t improvements they have not | yet rex repre entatives of the Chil- | lum H Citizens' Association p'an before a subcommittee of the 145000 NAVY YARD WORKERS IN PERL OF 30PCT. PAY CUT Officials See Restoration of $13,535,000 to Esti- mates Only Hope. 3,821 IN WASHINGTON WOULD BE AFFECTED Labor to Fight Reduction or Cur- tailment and Urge 100 New Ships, Says Alifas. Because of reduced naval estimates for the coming fiscal year, Navy De- partment offici2ls fear a 30 per cent wage reduction for the 45000 civilian workers in the Nation’s navy yards, in- cluding the 3,821 at Washingtcn, unless Congress Testores the $13,535,000 left out of the Budget Bureau reckoning. If the various wage boards are pro- hibited from meeting under the present econ-my act and Congress does not re:tore the figures, officials say, the navy yard workers will have to be placed on a rotative furlcugh plan or the navy yards wili have to shut down altogether for part of the fiscal year. If wage bards do mest, slashes in salaries are in_prospect. N. P. Alifas, president of District No. 44 of the International Association of Mackinists, comprising all machinlsts who work for the Federal Government, declared today that not only does labor propose to fight any wage reduction or curtailment in the number of work- ers, but also will press for enactment of the Vinsen bill, designed to construct ab-ut 100 new naval vescels. He made it clear that the amount of work to be done in the navy yards fixes the amoun of money available to pay civilian work- ers. $38,027,481 in Estimates. The estimates of the Budget Bureau for paying civilian workers in navy vards call fr $58.027481, apparently | predicated cn the assumption the Navy wage boards would meet and sash wages with the plan to have wages paid the Government workers brought down to the level cf those paid cn the outside, official said. The naval supply bill is pending in the House Appropriations Committee. Navy Department officials are appre- hensive lest the wage boards should not meet, as that would mean that many of the yards would have to shut down for part of the year, they say. unless Congress raised the Budget Bureau's figure. A reduction of 30 per cent in | wages, as contemplated in the est | mates. trims the prospective appropri !tion for this expenditure ome $13,- | 535.000. Against an appropriation of | $83.252,000 for the current fiscal year to ipay civilian Navy Yard workmen, the This would be in conformity | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER GUNMAN SUBDUED BY VICTIM'S FISTS; ANOTHER SCALDED Store Proprietor “Comes Across” With Series of Lefts and Rights. WOULD-BE BANDIT HELD UNTIL POLICEMEN ARRIVE Owner of Lunch Room Routs Youth by Throwing Hot Water on Him. An attempt to hold up a delicatessen at 1101 Thirteenth street landed a youthful would-be bandit in a police station cell today, after the proprietor, George Haje, responded to a command to “come across” by doing just that with | a series of lefts and rights. Scalding water accomplished much the same result for Nissen Penso, owner of a lunch room in the 1200 block of Eleventh street, who put another hold- | up man to flight by dousing him with | the contents of a boiling urn. |~ Haje’s punches sent the would-be rob- | ber's revolver clattering to the floor. | The youth then offered no resistance as | the storekeeper stepped in close and | pinned his arms to his sides. Haje kept his captive clasped in his arms while a passerby, to whom he called from the door, notified police. Just Burns Him Up. “I don’t mind giving a fellow some- thing to help him out,” Haje explained, “but it just burns me up to have any- body try to take anything away from me by force. It made me mad when that guy pulled a revolver on me, and I | made up my mind to get him—or get shot trying!” Haje, who lives at 3300 M street, | said he was alone when the youth entered and esked for a package of | cigarettcs. “When I turned to hand | him the cigarettes,” said Haje, “he drew a gun and ordered me to come across with my money. “I reached across the counter and slapped his arm, and he ducked. Before be came up, I ran around the counter and rushed him. I must have moved vretty fast, because he was still in a crouch when I knocked the revolver out of his hand and grabbed him.” ‘Taken to the second precinct, the youth sald he was “Spud Harris,” 17. He refused to state where he lives, but a label in his sweater bore the name |of a Philadelphia department store. He was booked for investigation. Gunman Screams in Pain. | Penso's reaction to the command to | hand over his money was about the same as Haje's. Penso, undaunted by | the gun leveled at him by the bandit, | seized the urn and let the scalding | water fly. | _ Screaming in pain, the would-be snow has re: d falling | to app estimates for the next fiscal year pro- robber fled. Penso gave police a descrip- | Foening Shar WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION 21, 1932. Storekeeper Subdues Bandit DELICATESSEN OWNER DISARMS WOULD-BE HOLD-UP MAN. | catessen at 1101 Thirtecath street. Haje him over to police, is shown in the inset. Photo shows Policeman G. L. Carder, seccnd precinct, placing Spud Harris, 17, under arrest after an attempt to hold up George Haje, proprietor of a deli- . who overpowered the youth and turned —Star Staff Photos. IEPORT PRESENTED ON GASCONPANY Commission Order Expected Tomorrow in Dispute Over ‘ Ownership. | l Corporation Counsel William W. Bride | today presented the Public Utilities Commission with a 20-page “statement of facts” in the controversy over own- | ership of the Washington Gas Light Co., | on which the commission 1s expected to base an order late tomorrow. What the new facts are and why it should be necessary to issue any order at all are facts still kept secret. | The commission was to take the memorandum up in conference this afternoon with William A. Roberts, spe- cial assistant corporation counsel in public utility matters. Decline to Comment. Mr. Bride, Mr. Roberts and Commis- sioner Ril E. Elgen of the Public | Utilities Cmmission declined today to corament. | . Th2 document now being studied was CURTIS WILL LIGHT COMMUNITY TREE Mrs. Gann to Accompany Vice President at Annual Cere- mony Saturday. Vice President Curtis will light the | National Community Christmas tree in Sherman Square, south of the Treasury, at 5 o'clock Saturday afternocn, it was announced today. His sister, Mrs. Ed- ward E. Gann, will attend the annual tres-lighting ceremonies with him. The Vice President was chairman of the committee in charge last vear, and the tree was lighted by President Hoo- ver. ‘This year, however, the President and Mrs. Hoover will be cut of the city, | end Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, present chairman, invited Mr. Curtis to officiate. District Boy and Girl Scouts will play PAGE B—-1 PARLEY PROPOSED ON RENT STUATION N SENATE PROBE Spokesmen for Real Estate Board Want Session for All Concerned. COMMITTEE FAVORABLE BUT INQUIRY PRESSED Meeting Called Next Thursday Night to Be Addressed by Capper, Copeland and Possibly King. Spokesmen for the Washington Real Estate Board today propesed to the Senate Rent Investigating Subcommit- tee a plan to bring together all real estate owners and brokers in the Capital in a unified effort to accomplish re- duction in rents. Roger Whiteford, attorney for the real estate men, mede a proposal which was agreed to by other members of the | board present. The plan also met with "appro\‘sl of Chairman Capper and other members of the Senate District Com- mittee. A meeting will be held Thursday night of next week. at which Senators Capper and Copeland and possibly Senator King will be speakers. The place for the meeting has not been | decided on. It was pointed out that the voluntary action ot the board would not forestall continuance of the subcommittee’s in- vestigation of the rent situation in Washington, and the exhaustive report on rental conditions here, prepared by | Oscar H. Brinkman, its investigator and | attorney, would be entered into the rec- jord. earing today adjourned at noon and will be resumed at 10:30 a.m. temorrow. Six Conclusions Bared. At _the conclusion of today’s session | Mr. Brinkman had made known only 6 | of the 39 conclusions he reached from his investigation and had not come to that portion of the report dealing with | his recommendation for remedying the | situation. | . Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York indorsed the plan to call together all real estate men, whether members of the Washington Real Estate Board or not, as well as owners of rental property. in an effort to, work out a plan looking toward reduction in rent, which is the main objective of the sub- committee’'s work. | There are 135 real estate brokers and agents represented on the board and approximately 265 others outside its | membership, the subcommittee was in- | formed. “I am convinced.” Senator Copeland leading parts in the ceremonies. Mary |said. in indorsing the move, “from the off in the number of applications for aid | Appropriatic in Jznuary to urge that the tee early |item for the fiscal year 1932 was $78,- | | vide but $58,027.481 for this item. The tion of him. James M. Patton, proprictor of a drawn up in a long series of confer- Catherine McPheeters, Troop 53, Girl {ences among Mr. Roberts. Wilton J. Scouts, and Karl Krumke, Eagle Scout | testimony thus far submitted to this | committee that there are inequities and at the Central Application Bureau of o taken toward the cxtension | the Community Chest, officials of the Hamp:hire avenue to the District line, organization reported today. which was authorized March 3, 1913 However, the bureau 15 kept busy _ According to Thomas W. Joy, presi- with calls from people physically un-!@em of the ascociati:n, the citizens liv- able to work. While the burden of the |ing along New Hampshire avenue paid family welfare and relief agencies has|$52.995.31 for the widening and exten- grocery in the 600 block of Nineteenth | street northeast, was robbed of $36 last | night by two armed colored men who held up his store. Estelle Muse, 21, colored, reported she was robbed of $4 by a colored man, who attacked her on Morgan street, 1258.275. The current year's $83.252,000 is actually cut to $76.712.761 because of the impounding of salaries for the workmen. under the economy act. Mr. Alifas said labor stands ready to not been lightened to any appreciable\ extent by the snow-shoveling jobs, | Chest _officials said, this work unques-| tionably prevented an additional burden | being thrown upon these organizations | incident to the Wintry weather. | Many Temporary Jobs. | Families who never before were forced to seek help have applied for aid in large numbers recently, according to figures compiled by the Applications Burcau. This condition exists also at the Emergency Relief Committee head- quarters, which is distributing Board of Public Welfare funds allocated by Congress from District appropriations. The Christmas rush of buylng, affect- ing private business as well as the Post Office Department, has provided em- | ployment for a considerable number. | thus also lightening demands on the relief agencies. Chest officials believe, however, that after the first of the year, demands for relief will soar far above the record- breaking Winter of last year. Speakers May Continue. Possibility that the Community Chest speakers’ unit may continue its program throughout the year, holding monthly meetings and contacting or- ganizations with speakers on community topics, was indicated at a meeting yes- terday of members of the unit at the Y. W. C. A, Seventeenth and K streets. Suggestions based on the varied ex- periences of speakers during the recent Ccmmunity Chest Campaign were offered for the betterment of the unit's service in the next campaign. Talks were made last night by Mrs. Leonard B. Schloss, Maj. Francis St. Austell, Mrs. Walter S. Uford, William Cogger, Miss Elizabeth Beatty, Maj. Campbell Johnson, Frank | Moulton, H. S. Fitz, Harold Stabler and | | Elwood Street, director of the Chest. J. O. Martin, vice chairman of the unit, pre- sided in the absence cf Mrs. John Jay | O'Cornor, chairman. NICHOLSON'S RETURN T0 FORCE IS ASKED Bill Introduced by Chairman Nor- ton of House District Committee. Chairman Norton of the House Dis- | trict Commitice today introduced a bill | to reinstate George M. Nicholson as a member of the Washington police force. | Nicholson was dismissed November | 23, 1929, when he was found guilty by | the Police Trial Board of being the father of an illegimate child. He pro- tested his fnnocence at the time, and a short while ago an investigation by the office of the corporation counsel de- veloped that the real father of the child later had admitted his paternity and married the mother. Corporation Counsel W. W. Bride rec- ommended to the District Commission- ers that Nicholson be reinstated and the Commissioners transmitted the recommendation to Congress. An act of Congress is required to reinstate a dis- missed policeman. | BROWN LAUDS EMPLOYES The spirit of the postel employes | throughout the service was praised by Postmaster General Brown in a Christ- mas greeting broadcast this morning. He caid: “As another year of associ- ation with the men and women in the postal service draws to a close, once more I express my deep appreciation of their loyalty and co-operation in dealing with the department’s many un- precedented problems, and once more I offer Christmas greetings and every good wish for the new year. 3 sion of the thoroughfare, many of them 14 or 15 years ago, and are still deprived of the benefits they were supposed to derive frcm the promised improvement. Hearing is Promised. At the intercession of Senator Tyd- ings of Maryland, Mr. Joy said, Repre- sentative Cannon of the Subcommittee on District Appropriations of the House Appropriations Committee, has agreed to give representatives of the citizens' associations a hearing, probably about January 10. All the citizens request at this time is inclusion in the forthcoming appro- priaiion bill of a $10.000 item to cover the cost of studies and the preparation of plans and specifications for a pass over or under the Baltimore & Ohin Railroad tracks at New Hampshire avenue. The District Commissioners submitted an estimate of $15,000 for this work for inclusion in the appropriation in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930. but | the item was stricken from the bill. Again Out of Budget. In a letter signed by Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, president of the board, the Commissioners state that following the elimination of the item and “due to such action and the drastic financial condition facing the District of Colum- bia in framing the 1934 budget, such items was not again placed in said budget.” Dr. Reichelderfer further said that the Commissioners would not be in- clined to oppose the inclusion of this item in the 1934 appropriation bill, but. on the other hand, they were unable to urge its inclusion. Accordingly the hearing for the citizens to present their cate was arranged. Regarding the hearing, Mr. Joy said: “It would seem that sufficient time, nomely, more than 18 year: elepsed and that there is ever: reascn why the Cengress of the United States should accede to our wishes and grant this medest appropriation in the forthcoming appropriation bill for the District of Columbia covering the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934.” THREE HELD IN DEATH OF CHILDREN IN BLAZE Two Colored Women and Man Al- leged to Have Fled After 0il Explosion. ‘Two colored women and a colored man were held for grand jury asiion by a coroner’s jury today in nection with the death of two cclored children, who died of burns received in their home in the 1900 block of Fourtecnti street Sunday night when an oil stove exploded. Those held are Bertha L. Robinson. 24; Mary Alice Contee, 21, and Thomas Wright, 28. The children were Gerald Sharp, jr., 2, and Dorothy Summer- ville, 5. Testimony at the inquest was to the effect the two women had been engaged in an altercation during which one of them allegedly kicked over the oil stove. The women and man ran from the room without making an attempt to save the children, witnesses said. —_— WISE SPENDING IS TOPIC Wise spending of the family budget was the principal topic of discussion at a meeting of the District Federation of Womens Clubs last right at the Wom- en’s City Club. Speakers were Miss Florence Hall, home economist, who discussed “Your 1933 Dollar, How Wisely Will You Spend It?”; Miss Ada Bush, wl topic was “Why Back to the Store with Your Pacl ?” and Judge Nathan B. ‘Williams, who spoke on “Buy Uncle Sam’s, Inc.” « | Dcpartment 2uthorities bclieve the situ- hose | rarily employed for snow removal, how- combat any attempt to trim wages in navy yards, believing an addition of purchasing power, rather than a re- duction, is what is needed to pull the Nation out of the depression. The sum | of $58,027.481, carried in the estimates, | will have to be increased by Congress if the present wage scales are to be paid the civilian workers and work pro- ceed during the whole of the coming fiscal year. Mr. Alifas said. He an- | ticipates that this will be done, basing | his belief on the action of the House, | which has embodied the present econo- my act in the Treasury-Post Office sup- ply_bill. providing that wage boards shall not meet during the fiscal year 1934, He foresees no cutting down of wages from this ource, Difficult. Navy Department authorities, however, are not so sanguine, believing it difficult | to persuade Congress in these times to raise the estimates by $13,535,000 so the present wage scale could be main- tained and the work kept up. They foresee a condition that with the reduced appropriations the present wage scale would be maintained, but the yards would have to shut down for part of the year, lacking sufficient money to keep going, or rotating furloughs ex- panded. Mr. Alifas _believes President-elect Pranklin D. Roosevelt will encourage work in the navy yards and that in- stead of buying & great many supplies, as is now done, from outside firms, the Navy itself would make many of these, such as engines. Mr. Roosevelt was in | charge of navy yard work when he was Assistant _Secretary of the Navy for nearly eight years, Mr. Alifas does nct think the Senate, in particular, would | |agres to a 30 per cent slash in wages | for navy vard personnel, but Navy aticn is grave and want to see remedial | | action tzken by Ccngre:s before it is | teo late. New Summer uniforms of London po- lice will have longer jackets with wasp waists and on the shoulders will be small cloth straps with the letters M. P. in silver. near New Jersey avenue. Theft of property valued at $443 from the basement of Union Station on December 10 was reported to polica yesterday by Mrs. George P. Goon of the Wyoming Apartments. She said the missing articles included books, pictures, etchings and clothing. GAS DEATH A SUICIDE Miss Sarah E. M'Elroy. 60, Left Note Blaming Financial Difficulties. A certificate of suicide was issued today by Coroner Joseph D. Rogers in the asphyxiation of Miss Sarah E. MCcElroy, 60, who was found dead yes- terday afternoon in her home in the 900 block of M street. She left a note attributing her act to financial diffi- culties. Miss McElroy was discovered with a rubber tube, leading from an open gas jet, in her mouth. Douglas Kitchen and Christopher Coombs, roomers at the house, found the body after smell- ing gas. Miss McElroy was pronounced dead by a private physician. CHILD IS SCALDED Falls Into Tub of Hot Water at Capitol Heights Home. Special Dispatch to The Star. CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md.. December 21.—Joan Darnelle, 4-year-old daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Darneille, is in serious condition at Children’s Hospital, gton, having been scalded when she fell into a tub of hot water while playing in her home late yesterday. Joan was rushed to Casualty Hos- pital, Washington, by her father, and later removed to Children’s Hospital. At the hospital it was said her body is badly scalded. D. C. CUTS SNOW ARMY’S PAY 11 PER CENT UNDER ECONOMY ACT Shevelers Taken On as Regular Employes, Making' oners to Cheer Small Inmates Reduction Necessary, Says Donovan. ‘The pinch of Federal economy, it was disclosed today, was extended even to the 1,079 men recruited from the ranks of the unemployed to dig Washington out of its deepest snow in 10 years. These men, who were paid off late yesterday, found 11 per cent less in the pay envelopes than had been prom- ised, due to the application of the Fed- eral economy act to the basic wage scale of 45 cents an hour. Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor and budget officer, explained that the deduction was necessary be- cause the men were taken on as regular per diem laborers, and, as such, were liable to the provsions of the econcmy act. He Said h> had an interpretation of Controller General McCarl to sup- port. his views. It had been thought przviously that all the economy act meant to per diem workers was that they would be al- lowed to work only five days a_week. This, in itself, reduced the pay 11 per cent a week. None of the men tempo- ever, worked as much as five days. On the subject of per diem the economy act says: “The days work of a per or employe ”» recelving compensation at the rate which is equivalent to more than $1,000 per annum, shall not exceed five days in any one week; “And the compensation for five days shall be ten-elevenths of that payable for & week's work of five and one-half days.” l?ll’l]. Donovan said the McCarl inter- pretation stipulates that the per diem rate of compensation of a per diem employe “will be one-fifth of ten- elevenths of the former regular weekly (5%, days or 44 hours) rate of compen- sation of employes and the hour rate will be one-eighth our day) of such per diem rate.” This language is interpreled by Maj. Donovan as requiring the 11 per cent cut in the pay of the snow shovelers. A total of $732.20 was deducted from the pay of the 1,079 men who received wages yesterday, and today $133.53 was taken out of the envelopes of 288 other temporary workers. Altogether the Dis- | Gen. trict paid the men $7,490.32, and the amount deducted was returned to the Federal Treasury to the credit of the District. ‘The loss suffered by the men in each case was less than $1. Lambert and Arthur Dean, lawyers rep- resenting the gas company and its present owners. The commission now i5 in litigation with the Chase-Harris- | | Forbes Corpcration and others said by | it to be owners of 108,000 out of 130,000 | | shares of the capital stock of the gas | company. | The commission ruled the holding of { this stock by foreign corporations was | illegal and ordered them to divest them- selves of it, and not to vote it at any | stockholders meetings. The corpora- tions appealed this order to the Dis- trict Supreme Court. | Compromise Effected. The commission has never answered { this appeal. and the rumor is that the long negotiations are in the nature of {a compromise, under which the stock will be transferred to cther owners and the commission will withdraw its order. Nobody concerned will confirm this, however. Meantime the order has been effec- tive enough to prevent any stockholders’ meeting this year. Th~ annual meeting convened in January, but adjourned be- cause no quorum was present. It has convened several times since, but each time has adjourned without action. SON AND BROTHER SAVE WOMAN BURNED IN BED Cigarette Believed to Have Caused Injury of Mrs. Ethel Hill, East Orange, at Hotel Here. Mrs. Ethel Hill, 38, of East Orange, N. J., was burned about the body early today, when her bed in the Conti- nental Hotel caught fire. A lighted gllgurene is believed to have caused the ze. Mrs. Hill, who stopped here en route | to the South, where she planned to undergo treatment for _arthritis, was discovered by her son, Robert C. Hill. ,and her brother, Wililam Lamont of New Brunswick, N. J. | Asleep in an adjoining rocm, the two | were awakened by Mrs. Hill's groans. | They pulled ker from the burning bed and summoned firemen, who quickly extinguished the blaze. £ The rescue squad took Mrs. Hill to Emergency Hospital, where her burns were said to be ‘“painful, but not serious.” — DOLLS MADE AT LORTON READY FOR DISTRIBUTION 500 Manufactured by Woman Pris- ! of Charity Institutions. Five hundred dolls, made by woman prisoners at the District Reformatory at Lorton, Va., will be distributed this | week by the Board of Public Welfare | to the little inmates of Washington's charitable institutions. One hundred al have been delivered to children making tivity at the reformatory and many of the woman prisoners, according to Capt. M. M. Barnard, superintendent of penal institutions, took a keen interest in the work and turned out some exceptionally good subjects. . i GEN. HARTS SPEAKS |Addresses Luncheon of Princeton Alumni Association. Brig. Gen. William A. Harts, U. 8. A., retired, addressed the Princeton Alumni Association of Washington at a lunch- eon in_ the Hay-Adams House today. . Harts was formerly military a tache at Paris. Stan Purnell of Baltimore, member of this year’s foot ball team at Prince- ton and captain of the base ball team next Spring, was among the guests. A number of undgggraduates attended. ' .. | inequalities in the rental situation here, Troop 38, will be the buglers. while |T feel certain that some definite pro- other members of both organizations gram can be worked out by such & will serve as a guard of honor, aides, | meeting as that proposed.” ushers and gate keepers. Senator Keane, Republican, of New Jersey, said real estate, like all other Marine Band to Play. { forms of business, must expect to suf- Senator Capper will preside and the program will open at 4:30. with Christ- mas music by the Marine Band, con- ducted by Capt. Taylor Branson. Carols will be sung by the Girls' Glee Club of George Washington University, the Men's Glee Club of the university and the carolers of Gordon Junior High School. The area surrounding the tree will be supplied with emplificrs installed and operated by the United States Sig- nal Corps. The ccremonies will be broadcast over a Nation-wide hook-up from 5 o'clock to 5:30. Work on Tree Under Way. Work on the tree and the arca is well under way, under directicn of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks. Stands have been placed, floodlights will be installed within the next day or two, and decoration of the tree will start tomorrow, under direction of the Electric League and the Community Center Department. The Potomac Elec- tric Power Co. will provide the current. Not later than Friday, thousands of Christmas eve greeting cards will be distributed to visitors in hotels through- out the city, extending an invitation to attend the ceremonies. The cards are the gift of the American Automobile Association, and programs are being provided by the American Forestry As- sociation. —— THOMAS 0. FEE ELECTED POST OFFICE LODGE HEAD Chosen President of Branch of American Federation of Gov- ernment Employes. Thomas O. Fee, 1417 Park road, was clected president of the Post Office De- partment Lodge of the American Fed- eration of Government Employes yes- terday. Other officers chosen included A. Paul Hines, vice president; Frank Gorely, secretary; William Locknane, treasurer, and T. Mahoney, guard. During the business meeting Helen C. McCarty, chairman of the National Or- ganization Committee, reviewed the work of that group in building member- ship. John R. Newman, national sec- retary, reported on the growth of the organization throughout the ~Nation, and S. E. Blassingham reported for the Lodge Constitution Committee. MARINE CORPS CLOSES 20 RECRUITING OFFICES Only Veterans of Service W$ll Be Taken Back, Officials Announce, Anticipating Reduction. In closing 20 Marine Corps recruiting stations over the Nation, Marine Corps headquarters announced today that it is to meet the anticipated reduction of 1,743 enlisted men, urged upon Congress by President Hoover. First enlistments are banned, and only former Marines who have been out of the service less than three months, and members of class 3 of the Fleet Marine rps Reserve, will now be taken into the Marine Corps. Re-enlistment sta- tions will be maintained in this city, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Pitts- burgh, Baltimore, Chicago, Macon, G Atlanta, Savannah, New Orleans, Port- land, Oreg.; Aberdeen, Wash.; Los An- geles San Prancisco. Licensed to Marry. PAIRFAX, Va., Decem cial) —A sued here to and Bertha Johnson, 35, both of Church, Va. 1 (Spe- Iph Mallu Tinner, 30, Falls fer losses duirng the present economic crisis. Expected to Take Loss. “We have got to pay for the destruc- tion cof capital which resulted from the tremendous inflation during the World War,” he said. “We have all got to take our losses, and the real estote owners are no exception.” Whiteford pointel out to the sub- committee that the Real Estate Board kad no power to induce the owners and brokers to join in such a program as that proposed, but promised that the realtors’ group would recommend to the varijous members of its organ n and to real estate men generally toat they take the situation up with in- dividual property owners and that the board would use its influence toward bringing them together. Senator Capper expressed the belief that something definite would come out of such a meeting. Emphasizing that the work of the subcommittee is far from finished, Sen- ator Copeland said: “I want it understood for myself and for the committee that in approving this plan we are not waiving our right and duty to go ahead with this investi- gation. We have done a fine lot of work and it must not be stopped. Enough has been shown of the in- equities in the rental situation here to demand a close study. “The public must not get the idea that this committee has surrendered.” COMMISSION ASKED T0 APPROVE FERRY | Chesapeake Beach Railway Makes Request to Maryland Serv- ice Group. The Maryland Public Service Com- mission has been requested to put its stamp of approval on the Chesapeake Beach Railway Co.’s proposed ferry ser- vice across Chesapeake Bay, which nas been the subject of litigation for more than two years. ‘The application filed by the company makes plain, however, that the ralway company believes it already has the right to operate the ferry and that the consent of the commission has been sought merely to place that right be- yond the realm of all future litigation. The proposed ferry would cut the time required by Washingtonians to reach the Eastern Shore of Maryland. In a statement announcing the fil- ing of the application with the Mary- 1and Public Service Commission, Eugene Fox, executive vice president of the railway company, said: “The carrier already has, by virtue of the certificate of public convenience and necessity for the ferry extension granted by the Interstate Commerce Commission and upheld by the Su- preme Court of the United States, the undeniable right to construct the exten- sion. It also has, at the very least, the right to handle all interstate traffic. ‘This interstate traffic would include au- tomobiles moving via the ferry from points in Maryland to points in other States. “The only objection that could not be raised relates to the right of the ferry to handle, without further State au- thority, automobile and passenger traffic originating and terminating in Mary- land.” Mr. Fox says the railway is_firmly convinced it already has this right, but is making its application to the com- mission 80 as to maintain friendly and harmonious relations with State author- ber 2 license has been is- | ities. Officials of the Claiborne-Annapolis ferry in the past have fought the inay~ mmxmmwm -~